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will continue to press the officials for answers in addition to the inquiries that we made with the defense department we also asked the department of justice for their perspective on what's happening and they basically told us that it's none of their business that the military oversees the facility and referred as back to the department of defense defense attorneys are telling us that these sorties have created conditions which make it nearly impossible for them to do their job and defend their clients so frustrating there is nothing that we can do we have sent e-mails to the department of berms to the commander. asking them. to talk to us about. her response we have been told by the department of justice that they will not talk to us they were. part of the. no remains talk to us in the meantime in washington the officials tried to downplay the hunger strike but they seem to have a good idea of why these men resorted to such a desperate move and yet they have no solution to offer they had great optimism that guantanamo would be closed they were devastated when the president did you know ba
will continue to press the officials for answers in addition to the inquiries that we made with the defense department we also asked the department of justice for their perspective on what's happening and they basically told us that it's none of their business that the military oversees the facility and referred as back to the department of defense defense attorneys are telling us that these sorties have created conditions which make it nearly impossible for them to do their job and defend...
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code sure also that in terms of the defense department. same sex soldiers you know who don't ask don't tell is gone now but the defense department come out saying these are all over the rights now that we can give you and if doma is overturned here's all the other rights which is what was one of the last things that panetta wrote as he has been very very upset yes cheney thanks a lot for being with thank you so much for having me and for showing up this morning as your network. we'll talk more about today's supreme court here in its potential outcomes inside the big picture politics panel coming up after the break . let me let me i want or don't let me ask you a question. here on this board is what we're having a debate we have i know you see. the truth is this right it's a bad thing to get your. the great thing will be and i don't want to talk about surveillance me. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and reali
code sure also that in terms of the defense department. same sex soldiers you know who don't ask don't tell is gone now but the defense department come out saying these are all over the rights now that we can give you and if doma is overturned here's all the other rights which is what was one of the last things that panetta wrote as he has been very very upset yes cheney thanks a lot for being with thank you so much for having me and for showing up this morning as your network. we'll talk more...
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says it's be thinking off its missile defense systems on the west coast after a threat from north korea should the u.s. really be worried about north korea and is trying to pick a fight with washington r.t.t. questions more. it's monday march eighteenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching our t.v. starting off this hour tomorrow marks the ten year anniversary of the u.s. aggression in iraq in the decade since the war began a lot has changed in this country here's a rundown of the things that we know the u.s. has engaged in misleading the public check the bush administration said time and again that iraq was dangerous because it possessed weapons of mass destruction it was the very foundation on which the entire war was built today the bush administration and the world knows otherwise lack of transparency check the fact that the government will not disclose concrete numbers of how many iraqi civilians were actually killed during the years of aggression or even the true economic costs of war are testaments to this point numbers of iraqi civilians killed ranged
says it's be thinking off its missile defense systems on the west coast after a threat from north korea should the u.s. really be worried about north korea and is trying to pick a fight with washington r.t.t. questions more. it's monday march eighteenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching our t.v. starting off this hour tomorrow marks the ten year anniversary of the u.s. aggression in iraq in the decade since the war began a lot has changed in this country here's a...
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there but do they need a defense when you. have the regulators and the government officials paying tribute to these guys as doing heroic work by breaking the law acting outside of the law manipulating markets there lauded as heroes did they don't need defense. i guess. so far no right because what we're seeing is the regulators know it's happening and if the traders were not fine they were not punished con agra paid twelve million dollars but that's pocket lint to them while they commit pilate markets to pay the fine so there's a a just b. c. barclays bank of america j.p. morgan and jamie diamond if they caught breaking the law like they are repeatedly they just need more to pay the fine so it's really a nonevent matter fact without that manipulation the u.s. economy would crash now which government officials learn of this how did they learn of the manipulation and what was their response just break that down well there was a lot of complaining on the training for that day by traders who actually wanted to to buy or sell it at
there but do they need a defense when you. have the regulators and the government officials paying tribute to these guys as doing heroic work by breaking the law acting outside of the law manipulating markets there lauded as heroes did they don't need defense. i guess. so far no right because what we're seeing is the regulators know it's happening and if the traders were not fine they were not punished con agra paid twelve million dollars but that's pocket lint to them while they commit pilate...
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us was last week also on friday saying there were fourteen detainees who refused all food although defense attorneys have been saying they were making more well now rather julianne says their twenty six we cannot independently verify these numbers or any of this so we have to rely on the response that we get from the officials and the detainees lawyers here's the latest from the attorneys apparently there are now denied direct access to their clients in guantanamo attorney say they had a visit scheduled for early next week with one of the clients who lost thirty pounds that's almost fourteen telegram since the strike began at the beginning of february that visit was approved by the military but the lawyers say they've just been informed by the authorities that they cannot visit the client because the military flight scheduled for next week was canceled also most recently the navy decided to discontinue commercial flights to the camp so attorneys are really struggling to find out the true extent of what's happening in one town i'm on now and not just the attorneys but we journalists as well
us was last week also on friday saying there were fourteen detainees who refused all food although defense attorneys have been saying they were making more well now rather julianne says their twenty six we cannot independently verify these numbers or any of this so we have to rely on the response that we get from the officials and the detainees lawyers here's the latest from the attorneys apparently there are now denied direct access to their clients in guantanamo attorney say they had a visit...
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defense secretary chuck hagel say help us end this hunger strike but the u.s. military is maintaining it's not a big deal. paul reporting for us from new york well i want to you also spoke with . jason de rohan to member of the defense team for some of the detainees he's in guantanamo who are in guantanamo know here's what he told us about the conditions the prisoners find themselves in. when i first walked the grim meeting room people to go and i met with my client my half inclined i was shocked to see the change in the parents. and the overall concern and the description and he gave people a whole lot about the conditions of confinement because the u.s. government would have everything back about and i can only talk about the meeting i can tell you that the american forward with other defense attorneys never even. told me any story about how what happened with the cross or what happened with this also because it is fairly personal it's not really. iraq continues to be marred by violence ten years after the u.s. led invasion we look at high stability in the ca
defense secretary chuck hagel say help us end this hunger strike but the u.s. military is maintaining it's not a big deal. paul reporting for us from new york well i want to you also spoke with . jason de rohan to member of the defense team for some of the detainees he's in guantanamo who are in guantanamo know here's what he told us about the conditions the prisoners find themselves in. when i first walked the grim meeting room people to go and i met with my client my half inclined i was...
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defense secretary chuck hagel say help us end this hunger strike but the u.s. military is maintaining it's not a big deal. marina pod and i are reporting from a new york for us and our g. also spoke on the phone to captain jason derives a member of the defense team for some of the detainees raising guantanamo now here's what he told us about the condition of the prisoners find themselves in when i first walked into the meeting room three weeks ago when i met with my client my current i was shocked to see the change in the parents last. year overall concern and the description here didn't. think a whole lot about the conditions of confinement because the u.s. government stated that we can talk about this broken only talk about meaning i can tell you that when i conferred with other defense attorneys in other he'd be. called the same exact story about how what happened with the current search is what happened with the soldiers it is for a universal it's not a risk. syria's government and rebels are accusing each other of launching a chemical attack near the north
defense secretary chuck hagel say help us end this hunger strike but the u.s. military is maintaining it's not a big deal. marina pod and i are reporting from a new york for us and our g. also spoke on the phone to captain jason derives a member of the defense team for some of the detainees raising guantanamo now here's what he told us about the condition of the prisoners find themselves in when i first walked into the meeting room three weeks ago when i met with my client my current i was...
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defense secretary chuck hagel say help us end this hunger strike but the u.s. taining it's not a big deal. my reporting from new york also spoke on the phone to captain jason write a member of the defense team for some of the detainees in guantanamo here's what he told us about the conditions the prisoners find themselves in when i first walked in grenada rent a week ago i met with my client my half inclined i was shocked to see the change in the parents more weight and concern in the description of. people who are out about the conditions of confinement the government. can only talk about i can tell you that american forward with other defense attorney. told me. stories about how what happened. in the social. world come after the break. technology. developments. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know about i'm sorry welcome to the big show. you. thanks for staying with us you're watchi
defense secretary chuck hagel say help us end this hunger strike but the u.s. taining it's not a big deal. my reporting from new york also spoke on the phone to captain jason write a member of the defense team for some of the detainees in guantanamo here's what he told us about the conditions the prisoners find themselves in when i first walked in grenada rent a week ago i met with my client my half inclined i was shocked to see the change in the parents more weight and concern in the...
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defense secretary chuck hagel say help us and this hunger strike but the u.s. military is maintaining it's not a big deal. reporting for us from new york well also i spoke on the phone to you captain jason de ruyter a member of the defense team of some of the detainees in guantanamo and here's what he told us about the conditions the prisoners find themselves in and i first one could really repeat weeks ago and i met with my client my half inclined i was shocked to see that you've been hearing more. and your concern you know the description again that he gave people a whole lot about the conditions of confinement because your government. about it can only talk about the meeting room i can tell you that the american progress other defense attorney never. told me any story about how what happened with the crown searches what happened with the source of it is. still ahead for iraq continues to be marred by violence ten years after the u.s. led invasion we look at stability in the country. and revel. in syria playing the blame game after a chemical attack that kill
defense secretary chuck hagel say help us and this hunger strike but the u.s. military is maintaining it's not a big deal. reporting for us from new york well also i spoke on the phone to you captain jason de ruyter a member of the defense team of some of the detainees in guantanamo and here's what he told us about the conditions the prisoners find themselves in and i first one could really repeat weeks ago and i met with my client my half inclined i was shocked to see that you've been hearing...
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i can tell you the american other defense attorney never. told me any story about how what happened. with the social q's. still ahead for you this hour iraq continues to be marred by violence ten years off a big u.s. led invasion we look at how stability in the country's proving to be divisive and. government syria playing the blame game for a chemical attack that killed twenty five people and wounded dozens. of a foreign intervention more off this quick break. technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've. covered. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. he is easy to do it's easy to be easy. to meet. such stuff. back. was welcome back a group linked to al qaeda says they are behind the so-called bloody tuesday attacks in baghdad when sixty five people died in a series of blasts across
i can tell you the american other defense attorney never. told me any story about how what happened. with the social q's. still ahead for you this hour iraq continues to be marred by violence ten years off a big u.s. led invasion we look at how stability in the country's proving to be divisive and. government syria playing the blame game for a chemical attack that killed twenty five people and wounded dozens. of a foreign intervention more off this quick break. technology innovation all the...
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whether it's kind of aggro in the oil market their defense is always that well we're adding liquidity we're making a market and we're doing something important and laws don't apply to us it's not ever going to change i think in this case for bragging in an email you know one of them said some people are prints we could price print so they didn't have a defense in this case. there but do they need a defense when you have the regulators and the government officials paying tribute to these guys as doing heroic work by breaking laws acting outside of the law manipulating markets they're lauded as heroes they don't need defense. i guess. that's so far no right because what we're seeing is the regulators know what's happening in this case the traders were not buying they were not punished can aggregate twelve million dollars but that's pocket lint to them while they commit relate markets to pay the fine so there's a a just b.c. barclays bank of america j.p. morgan and jamie diamond if they caught breaking the law like they are repeatedly they just nip relate more to pay the fines so it's re
whether it's kind of aggro in the oil market their defense is always that well we're adding liquidity we're making a market and we're doing something important and laws don't apply to us it's not ever going to change i think in this case for bragging in an email you know one of them said some people are prints we could price print so they didn't have a defense in this case. there but do they need a defense when you have the regulators and the government officials paying tribute to these guys as...
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says it's beefing up its missile defense systems on the west coast after a threat from north korea should the u.s. really be worried about north korea and is trying to pick a fight with washington r.t. questions more. it's monday march eighteenth five pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching r.t. . we begin this hour with breaking news texas authorities just announced that an american couple will not be charged in the death of a three year old boy they adopted from russia is the district attorney in ecuador county said that his office would not file charges against allen and laura shatto in the january twenty first death of mack châteaux who was born maxim cruz the police say that the adoptive mother was told authorities she found maxim unresponsive outside the family's gardendale texas home he was pronounced dead shortly afterward at the hospital authorities ruled the boy's death was an accident after an autopsy report his death has become the latest flashpoint in the debate over whether american families should be allowed to adopt russian children russian authorities
says it's beefing up its missile defense systems on the west coast after a threat from north korea should the u.s. really be worried about north korea and is trying to pick a fight with washington r.t. questions more. it's monday march eighteenth five pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching r.t. . we begin this hour with breaking news texas authorities just announced that an american couple will not be charged in the death of a three year old boy they adopted from russia is...
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defense secretary chuck hagel say help us and this hunger strike but the u.s. military is maintaining it's not a big deal. reporting from new york for us well also you also spoke on the phone to captain jason de ronde a member of the defense team for some of the detainees he's in guantanamo now here's what he told us about the conditions the prisoners finding themselves in when i first walked in grimmy room people to go with my car and my afghan car i was shocked. to hear more. and your concern with descriptions of. people who are out about the conditions of confinement because your government. can only talk about i can tell you that american progress other defense attorney never. told me. story about how what happened across or what happened with the social q's. a quick look now at some other news making headlines around the world u.s. lawmakers have decided to ban on assault weapons from proposed gun control legislation officials say the measure lacks support but it's believed a ban could later be voted on as a separate bill though polls show most americans b
defense secretary chuck hagel say help us and this hunger strike but the u.s. military is maintaining it's not a big deal. reporting from new york for us well also you also spoke on the phone to captain jason de ronde a member of the defense team for some of the detainees he's in guantanamo now here's what he told us about the conditions the prisoners finding themselves in when i first walked in grimmy room people to go with my car and my afghan car i was shocked. to hear more. and your concern...
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throw rocks at it they need it they are entitled to have a legitimate military for legitimate self-defense it's a rough neighborhood and they have some nasty neighbors ok jeff right before the break go ahead. well let me be clear on what i mean when i talk about reparations what i what i mean is helping the iraqi government rebuild what we destroyed and taking responsibility for that sure not even being clear and taking responsibility for the fact that we destroyed this country illegally that we went in and destroyed the infrastructure of this country completely and illegally that we destroyed their electrical grid their water and people are dying to this day because of the illegal invasion right gentlemen i'm going to jump in here we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on iraq stay with our team. we are facing a lot of problems. because no one thought to drink no good school. mates when you've been part. of a local what's a national problem is a law in the local needs you might want to community l.n.g. moulton will be used. to give gene
throw rocks at it they need it they are entitled to have a legitimate military for legitimate self-defense it's a rough neighborhood and they have some nasty neighbors ok jeff right before the break go ahead. well let me be clear on what i mean when i talk about reparations what i what i mean is helping the iraqi government rebuild what we destroyed and taking responsibility for that sure not even being clear and taking responsibility for the fact that we destroyed this country illegally that...
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industry is very different from the defense industries in other countries they're interested making money and they want to sell this to anyone they can find who is willing to buy it so they're not going to volunteer. let us say a factual assessment israel must at least be disappointed with it. if it's only catching about forty percent of what's going in some of the rockets are being deflected i gather a fulling on heavily populated areas well what we should be much more concerned about and i'm sure the israelis or is it you're dealing with relatively unsophisticated primitive rocketry right now coming from gaza we're looking at a future where the sophistication of the technology and its lift ality will be much greater at which point in time i think we've pretty much concluded we're very limited in what we can do in terms of firing a bullet at another bullet and expecting to hit it so we're looking today in the united states that breakthroughs in directed energy and other technologies they are really the future of missile defense as an american yourself as a final question want to as
industry is very different from the defense industries in other countries they're interested making money and they want to sell this to anyone they can find who is willing to buy it so they're not going to volunteer. let us say a factual assessment israel must at least be disappointed with it. if it's only catching about forty percent of what's going in some of the rockets are being deflected i gather a fulling on heavily populated areas well what we should be much more concerned about and i'm...
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thousand and eleven hopes a bomb would keep his campaign promise dimmed further when he signed the defense of the resume bill which ruled out shutting one tunnel be down and prevented the transfer of prisoners from the camp in march obama also signed an executive order resuming military trials for guantanamo detainees a move seen by many as a complete reversal of its previous policy while in december of two thousand and eleven the president failed to veto the national defense bill believing the way for prisoners to be held indefinitely and without charge and extending the ban on moving them from the prison finally in july last year the pentagon announced its plans to leave a forty million dollar fiberoptic cable from guantanamo bay to the u.s. mainland not exactly a sign washington is planning to wrap up its operations in the controversial detention center a lack of information in secrecy surrounding guantanamo's only making the situation worse as a london based human rights activist she explains her group aims to uncover what goes on at the camp and she says the mainstream media and offic
thousand and eleven hopes a bomb would keep his campaign promise dimmed further when he signed the defense of the resume bill which ruled out shutting one tunnel be down and prevented the transfer of prisoners from the camp in march obama also signed an executive order resuming military trials for guantanamo detainees a move seen by many as a complete reversal of its previous policy while in december of two thousand and eleven the president failed to veto the national defense bill believing the...
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but it's not just this act that's troubling it's exacerbated by the national defense authorization act indefinite detention clause an issue we've covered heavily on the show last month during a historic n.d.a. trial taking place in new york city while there abby martin had a chance to sit down with thomas drake a former n.s.a. employee and whistleblower the first i asked him why he cares about the n.b.a. take a look at this just another step since the post nine eleven era. other step in the erosion of the u.s. constitution and the rise of not just enough security state but secret government. executed through through for yacht executive rule. when you came out as a whistleblower and you were prosecuted for it and targeted i mean how did it feel to have the same establishment that you had dedicated so much of your life working for come down on you total betrayal. is important no i took an oath four times this one from the constitution that oath was not was not an oath to the president it was not an oath it was not an oath of secrecy it was not a security agency it was really an oath to l
but it's not just this act that's troubling it's exacerbated by the national defense authorization act indefinite detention clause an issue we've covered heavily on the show last month during a historic n.d.a. trial taking place in new york city while there abby martin had a chance to sit down with thomas drake a former n.s.a. employee and whistleblower the first i asked him why he cares about the n.b.a. take a look at this just another step since the post nine eleven era. other step in the...
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his car the bailiff shoots him in the had shoots him in the torso and the bailiff is claiming self-defense and something else maybe that is astounding to me this man and i hate to cut you off or important at a time but you know elements of the police state police policing themselves is never a good thing never give you so much as margaret how correspondent thank you so much . as if you like what you see so far go to our facebook page at facebook dot com slash breaking the set and be sure to do what thousands of already done and give us a like we'll be updating our status daily there with links to past segments as well as reaching out to you for ideas on what you want to see covered on. breaking the set can also check out behind the scenes photos we take at the studios are one break in the set is reporting on the road so head to our facebook page and check all that out and more we'll take a quick commercial break right now but stay tuned to visit a famous case of whistleblowing next. a clear image of iraq after a facial. twenty day taxi trip through the country. the road full of danger. cle
his car the bailiff shoots him in the had shoots him in the torso and the bailiff is claiming self-defense and something else maybe that is astounding to me this man and i hate to cut you off or important at a time but you know elements of the police state police policing themselves is never a good thing never give you so much as margaret how correspondent thank you so much . as if you like what you see so far go to our facebook page at facebook dot com slash breaking the set and be sure to do...
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outright lies to the american people the bush administration waged a war without the justification of self defense that makes it a war crime under international law. the supreme international crime in the words of the nuremberg tribunal the true cost of the war will never be known although some valiant efforts have been made peer reviewed studies back in two thousand and six put the iraqi death count at six hundred fifty thousand. that's an unimaginable number we have almost five thousand troops dead and we have when the interest is considered on how much the war will cost because it was both fought with borrowed money it's on the order of six trillion dollars that's more than the g.d.p. g.d.p. of most countries so look. the biggest the biggest to scrape about this war is the fact that no bush administration official now or ever will be held accountable or brought to justice for the war crime that they committed in iraq and that's the big tragedy here ok douglas when you weigh in ok and anything positive ten years on. absolutely i think that the best summary i've read this week is from leon wiesel
outright lies to the american people the bush administration waged a war without the justification of self defense that makes it a war crime under international law. the supreme international crime in the words of the nuremberg tribunal the true cost of the war will never be known although some valiant efforts have been made peer reviewed studies back in two thousand and six put the iraqi death count at six hundred fifty thousand. that's an unimaginable number we have almost five thousand...